This fascinating collection of photographs documents the dramatic transformation that has taken place over the last one hundred years in the area around Whetstone and the Great North Road. The book gives a vivid impression of buildings, streets and districts that have vanished or been changed almost beyond recognition. The collection includes graphic images of Whetstone, Totteridge, Friern Barnet, New Southgate, Brunswick Park, Woodside Park and North Finchley. The photographs give an evocative insight into the daily lives and living conditions of the residents. They also provide a valuable visual record of the way in which the quiet, isolated villages of the late nineteenth century developed rapidly into the suburban communities of today. Most of the photographs in the book, which has been compiled by John Heathfield, the well-known local historian, date from the turn of the century, and many have never been published before. They create a memorable picture of local people at work and at leisure, of notable episodes in the history of the district and the nation, and of changing modes of transport and fashion which older readers may well remember.

Around Whetstone & North Finchley

Arts & Photography

Heathfield,John

Photography & Video

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Basingstoke in the 1960s (Britain in Old Photographs)

Brown, Robert

Rowley Revisited (In Old Photographs)

History

Page, Anthony H.

Europe

Now in paperback -- "Plowden deploys her extensive knowledge of Tudor and Stuart times to provide a series of skillfully written studies".
 -- Antonia Fraser, The Times
This book makes a fresh study of the six princesses of the House of Stuart who lived through the violent social and political upheavals of the 17th century. One is the direct ancestress of the present British royal family, one was the mother of a king of England, and one died in prison at the age of fourteen. Another became Madame de France and two were English queens regent.

The Stuart Princesses

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Bristol Collection

David J. Eveleigh

Henry Winstanley and the Eddystone Lighthouse

Adam Hart-Davis vividly recreates the story of the Eddystone Lighthouse, the character of the man who built it, and the power of the elements that finally destroyed them both.

Biographies & Memoirs

HART-DAVIS, Adam

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